I have a track cleaning car of unknown provenance that I want to buy new cleaning pads for but do not know who made it etc. Any leads would be appreciated. See photos.
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Kinda looks like the one from Northeast Trains.
Definitely Northeast Trains. You can use thin scotch brite pads too.
I customized mine.
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Northeast trains, netrains.com.
It appears that NE Trains doesn't sell the pads, at least they aren't on the website.
@gunrunnerjohn posted:It appears that NE Trains doesn't sell the pads, at least they aren't on the website.
I made a bunch of them myself using swiffer pads I believe.But here is NE trains ebay listing for the pads. I found the car cleans the track the best using Goo Gone on the front pad and leaving the rear pad dry.
I'm sure they're knockoffs, but I suspect they'll do the job. 
@Bruce Brown posted:Here is another seller of the pads. Frankly, I never had an easy time replacing the pads. A few years ago in a magazine article, someone came up with a modification to make it easier to swap pads but I never quite understood it!
I wonder what makes that dozen pads worth $5 more than the two dozen in the other ad! 
I picked up some additional pads about 6 months ago, and if I remember correctly they were from NE Trains. I may have called them. Their new track cleaning cars come with a dozen replacement pads, so they do have them in stock.
@gunrunnerjohn posted:I wonder what makes that dozen pads worth $5 more than the two dozen in the other ad!
Profit !!!!
Thanks for all the replies.
I looked at my pads. They seem to be a heavy gauge felt.
A pair of scissors and some felt from a local sewing goods store and roll your own. Much cheaper.
I bought sheets starched felt . You can get them from craft stores. Regular felt is to flimsy.
It takes a little longer for the liquid cleaner to absorb into the starched felt but they work well and they are cheap.
You can also reverse the pads and use them twice.
Take a pad to a store that sells fabric and match it to a fabric and WHAM! You cut to size and have lots of pads CHEAP. That is what I did for my CMX car after talking to place that manufactured it and having them tell me what to do.
Do most of you use goo gone, alcohol or something else on the front pad? I just bought one a couple days ago and would appreciate the info.
I generally use alcohol drys fast with no residue.
I use Goo Gone on the front pad, dry back pad. I washed the pads and reused them a couple of times.
